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Yemen’s Houthi group detained 10 additional United Nations staff members in Sanaa on Thursday, bringing the total number of UN personnel held by the Iran-supported rebels to 69, all of them Yemeni, according to a UN spokesperson and UN sources.
Houthi officials did not issue an immediate response to the latest detentions. The group has previously defended such actions by alleging that UN personnel and humanitarian staff were working with US and Israeli intelligence services, a charge the United Nations has dismissed.
The move follows criticism from UN…
